August is a big release for us at Cinema Intelligence!

We are excited to announce global availability for Booking Optimization. This product optimizes the booking and content planning process with an advanced and intelligent tool that empowers cinema exhibitors to make the best decisions based on past performance, forecasting information and “what-if” analysis. It provides competitive advantage in planning and distributor negotiations, by increasing revenue via attendance providing recommendations for booking policies to ensure optimal allocation of films across every location and screen. You can now receive instant answers to questions such as “how did this film perform last week, how is it expected to perform next week?”

Here is a complete list of August features:

Booking Optimization - General Availability

Analytics

Film Booking

Scheduling

General

Cinema Intelligence Booking Optimization product aims to empower you to make booking decisions while accessing a live, interactive overview of all bookings. Our vision is to enrich this view with data, intelligence, and automation to help you build the most optimal plan as efficiently as possible.

The initial product version allows you to book films cinema by cinema, for the upcoming week, together with having a full circuit view of all bookings.

We prepared a dedicated section for this new exciting product, you can access it here.

Sneak preview:

Are you interested in learning more about Booking Optimization? We will share more details with you in the upcoming weeks and schedule a dedicated Webinar. Keep an eye on your inbox!

"Next 4 weeks" Dashboard enhancement

In the "New releases coming next 4 weeks" visual we incorporated Box Office columns together with Opening Weekend forecasts.

The Opening Weekend is defined as Friday + Saturday + Sunday.

If you would like to only look at 1 week, a new Week filter was added on the top of the dashboard.

"Past Weekend Analysis" Dashboard - US Market release

Past Weekend Analysis provides a quick overview of the highlights of last weekend's box office, comparing country-level data to your own circuit data. This comparison allows you to analyze your circuit's market share versus the country at large, as well as compare and contrast averages per cinema and national averages. This dashboard also displays information on the film's weekend occupancy rates alongside insights regarding domestic box office performance.

Last month we released a Beta version of the product to a list of selected customers. Starting from August, we are ready to go live to all US based exhibitors.

We prepared a dedicated section for this new exciting product, you can access it here.

Sneak preview:

Advanced Intermissions management

Starting with this release, you can define film intermissions independent from bookings. You can assign different values for film version, format, cinema or group of cinemas, and timeslots. An intermission is defined by start and duration.

Example of an intermission: For "The Meg" film, 2D format, on Hollywood Cinema, only for evening shows scheduled during the EV timeslot, all intermissions to start at film minute 40 and last for a duration of 10 minutes.

Intermissions are created for the entire lifecycle of a film, no matter the week of playing. You can change them at any moment and the updates will apply only for sessions scheduled after this moment. For example, if the intermission is updated on a film in week 2, the new values will apply starting from week 3.

When scheduling, the intermissions will be applied automatically for all impacted sessions. You can also view them under Expanded Movie List -> FILM SETTINGS.

On demand Custom booking report

A common request we've heard from you was that a list of all planned future film releases and which cinemas are booked would help in internal communication with other teams. To ensure we facilitate collaboration, we implemented a tool to allow us to create a Custom Booking Report especially for you.

Once the report is created, you can:

Example:

Attention! Column availability is limited for the time being.

Are you interested in learning more about this option? Contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager and we will work together to fulfill your request. Fees might apply.

New setting for unmanageable times

Up until now, when we set unmanageable times, when your generated the schedule, you might miss sessions because we couldn't fulfill all constraints. Our new administration settings allow you to receive scheduling proposals where sessions could start at this unmanageable times, if there is no other option.

Example: Let's assume your unmanageable times are 5, 25, 35, 55. This means Scheduling will not create any sessions starting at any of these moments. But due to other constraints, the only moment to start a film is at 02:25 PM. Instead of dropping the session, we will display it in the Scheduling after you press Generate Schedule.

By default, this setting is disabled. Please contact our Customer Support Team in case you would like to update your settings.

Get newly created films in the same day

You are on Monday morning and you just receive news that you must include a new film in next week schedule. You go and create the film in your ticketing system. But how will you schedule it if it is not available in Cinema Intelligence?

From now on, you can start using the film without waiting for the next day and overnight import process. All you have to do is to open Scheduling -> select any cinema -> Import. After a maximum of 15 min, the film will become available in all modules.

Attention! This option is available only if Cinema Intelligence can get data on demand from your Ticketing system, through the import functionality.